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CLTR 1280 French Film and Culture

CLTR 2001 World Cultures through Film

CLTR 2504 Modern German Film and Literature

CLTR 3450 Israeli and Palestinian Film

Inez Hedges is professor of cultures, societies and global studies and the founder of the Program in Cinema Studies at Northeastern University. She teaches courses in world cinema, French film, German literature and film, French film, and Palestinian and Israeli film. She was appointed as Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies for 2006-09. Her most recent book, World Cinema and Cultural Memory (2015) examines the way films have contributed to radical or oppositional thinking in cultures as diverse as Chile, Cuba, Palestine, post-Franco Spain, France, and East Germany. Her earlier book, Framing Faust: 20th Century Cultural Struggles (2005), traces the role of the Faust myth in some of the most important historical events and traumas of the past century: the rise of Nazism and the Cold War, but also the birth of feminism and of cinema, and the experiments of socialism and the avant-garde. Her previous books, Breaking the Frame (1991) and Languages of Revolt (1983), explored questions of film and philosophy while discussing art, literature and film. She is the author of two plays on the French Shoah and resistance during WWII and is working on a third.

Breaking the Frame: Film Language and the Experience of Limits. Indiana University Press, 1991. Reviewed in Choice, The French Review, Womanspeak, Feminist Bookstore News, Signs, and others

Languages of Revolt: Dada and Surrealist Literature and Film. Duke University Press, 1983. Reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement, University of Hartford Studies in Modern Literature, Film Quarterly, Journal of Modern Literature, The Centennial Review, World Literature Today, The French Review, Revue belge de philologie et d’histoire, and others

Dramatic Works

Children of Drancy: a Montage of Voices, Performed by the Northeastern Univ. Department of Theatre in October-November 2007.

Children of Drancy DVD, distributed worldwide to Holocaust Museums and Memorials, 2009

“The Insurgent Writing of Gisèle Prassinos,” in Dada/Surrealism 18 (1990): 27-31; this issue was reprinted in book form (MIT Press) and also appeared in Chinese translation in 1996. My translations of Prassinos appeared in the same issue.

“Méliès the Magician,” in A Trip to the Movies: Georges Méliès Filmmaker and Magician (1861-1938), ed. Paolo Cherchi Usai (Rochester: International Museum of Photography George Eastman House, 1991).

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